The First Trailer For "She-Hulk" Starring Tatiana Maslany Just Dropped, And Some Fans Aren't Impressed With The CGI

Millions of people have already watched Tatiana Maslany transform in the trailer for She-Hulk, an upcoming series from Marvel Studios that dropped its anticipated first preview yesterday.

Despite the hype — and soaring view count — She-Hulk's new teaser left fans unimpressed, as many criticized what they felt were noticeably sloppy visual effects.

For those who aren't familiar with the show's plot, She-Hulk centers on Tatiana's character Jennifer Walters, an attorney that originally debuted in Marvel Comics. She's the cousin of Bruce Banner — aka Hulk, played by Mark Ruffalo — and inherits his superpowers after a blood transfusion.

Visual effects in She-Hulk include computer-generated imagery, or CGI, which VFX artists use to give real actors inhuman physical qualities like green skin and gargantuan size. The trick works well in some scenes unveiled in the trailer. In others, not so much.

Folks online had a lot to say about this, and Twitter quickly erupted with memes and critiques of She-Hulk's digitally-altered appearance.

For the most part, skeptical social media users pointed out that Tatiana's She-Hulk character looked unfinished.

There were Shrek jokes...

...and a resurgence of memes featuring Adele at the NBA All-Star game.

"Please fix the CGI in She-Hulk," one Twitter user wrote, alongside a photo of a lime-green character from the '90s animated series ReBoot.

"Reminder that each episode of She-Hulk has a budget of 25M," another said. "What the hell happened to the CGI?"

Negative reactions to the CGI in She-Hulk's trailer were accompanied by some positive ones, too. "The CGI for She-Hulk should not be that much of a concern considering it is three fucking months away," another user wrote on Twitter. "It will probably look fine by the time it comes out."

The type of visual effects required for films and shows like She-Hulk are notoriously time-intensive and difficult to create, since they task artists with tweaking live actors' physical traits while also splicing them with bodies that are entirely imagined. Films that reaped acclaim for these feats — Avatar and Avengers: Endgame are two prominent examples — took years to produce, and those were just a few hours long.

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Obviously, technology has advanced since both movies were released. But, with 10 full episodes slated to premiere in August, the graphics specialists behind She-Hulk clearly took on quite the challenge. We'll see how it all pans out this summer!